Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : MCabber vulnerability (USN-4506-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4506-1 advisory. It was discovered that MCabber does not properly manage roster pushes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to remotely perform machine-in-the-middle attacks...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4506-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-4506-1: MCabber vulnerability

It was discovered that MCabber does not properly manage roster pushes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to remotely perform machine-in-the-middle attacks. CVE-2016-9928...

[SECURITY] [DLA 2260-1] mcabber security update

Package : mcabber Version : 0.10.2-1+deb8u1 CVE ID : CVE-2016-9928 It was discovered that there was a "roster push attack" in mcabber, a console-based Jabber XMPP client. This is identical to CVE-2015-8688 for gajim. For Debian 8 "Jessie", this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.2-1+deb8u1. W...

CVE-2016-9928

MCabber before 1.0.4 is vulnerable to roster push attacks, which allows remote attackers to intercept communications, or add themselves as an entity on a 3rd party's roster as another user, which will also garner associated privileges, via crafted XMPP packets...

CVE-2016-9928

CVE-2016-9928 affects MCabber prior to 1.0.4. The vulnerability arises from improper handling of roster pushes in XMPP, allowing a remote attacker to intercept communications or add themselves as another user in a third party’s roster, potentially gaining privileges. Multiple advisories reference...

Updated mcabber packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that there was a "roster push attack" vulnerability in mcabber, a console-based Jabber XMPP client. A remote attacker can modify the roster and intercept messages via a crafted roster-push IQ stanza CVE-2016-9928...

[slackware-security] mcabber

New mcabber packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/loudmouth-1.5.3-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update is needed for the mcabber security update...